234 XCI, SOLANACEZ (WRIGHT). | Solanum. 
67. S. schumannianum, Dammer in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 352. 
Branches woody, terete, erect, densely setose when young, spiny when 
old. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, 4} in. 
long, 2 in. wide, covered with minute stellate hairs when young, at 
length glabrous ; petiole about 1 in. long. Inflorescence extra-axillary, 
paniculate; branches short, bearing umbels of flowers at their apices ; 
peduncle setose; pedicels and calyx pulverulent-tomentose, pedicels 
4 in. long. Calyx cupshaped, 5-toothed. Corolla rotate; lobes 5-6, 
linear, 2 lin, long, } lin. wide. Filaments very short; anthers 2 lin. 
long, subulate, pores terminal. Style filiform, } in. long, stellately 
tomentose near the base ; stigma obliquely bifid. 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Usambara; on the ascent to Magamba 
Forest, Holst, 3841. 
68. S. xanthocarpum, var. Schraderi, Dunal in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. i. 302. A spiny herb. Stem erect, terete, flexuose, branched, 
slightly stellately hairy when young; spines short, straight, subulate. 
Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, pinnately 5-9-lobed, up to 5 by 
3 in., with minute distant stellate hairs on both surfaces, and spines on 
the upper side of the midrib; petiole 1 in. long, spiny. Cymes extra- 
axillary, 5-8-flowered. Calyx ovoid, sparingly stellate-hairy outside ; 
lobes ovate, acuminate. Corolla about 1 in. in diam., blue-purple, 
densely stellate-hairy outside the midpetaline areas, slightly hairy 
inside. Stamens 5, equal ; filaments very short, broad; anthers } in. 
long, oblong, pores terminal. Ovary subglobose, hirsute; style 
thickened above, curved at the apex. Berry globose, size of a cherry, 
shining yellow.—Schweinf. Pl. Nilot. 25, t. 9. See note in Hook.f. 
Fl, Brit. Ind. iv. 236. 
Nile Land. Senaar, ex Schweinfurth. Gallabat, Schweinfurth, 1365 ! 
Fashoda, Schweinfurth, 1081! Kordofan: Abu Haraza and Abu Felagi, Pfund, 
149! Mulbes, Pfund, 661! Bahr el Gebel, at Kanissa, Muriel, S,77! Banks of 
the White Nile, Petherick! Niamniam: Nabambizso River, Schweinfurth, 3094! 
69. S. Thruppii, (. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 129. Stem 
erect, terete, sparingly furnished with stellate hairs; spines straight, 
compressed, 4 in. long. Leaves solitary, ovate, sinuately 7~9-lobed, 
unequal and acute at the base, 5 by 4 in., stellately hairy on both 
surfaces and spiny on the principal veins; petiole 2~3 in. long, chap- 
nelled above, spiny. Cymes corymbose, much shorter than the leaves. 
Calyx campanulate, 4 in. in diam., stellately hairy, spiny; lobes 9% 
ovate, acuminate. Corolla rotate, purple, 1} in. in diam., densely 
stellately hairy outside the midpetaline areas, glabrescent within ; lobes 
5, elliptic, 4 in. long, 2 lin. wide. Stamens 5; anthers subsessile, 
oblong, } in. long, pores oblique. Ovary ovoid, hairy above ; style 
rather longer than the stamens. 
Mile Land. Somaliland: Hahi, Boobi and Adda Galla, James & Thrupp ! 
70. S. acanthocalys, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 232. 
A shrub 2-6 ft. high. Branches terete, stellately hairy; spine 
